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Majishan
Majishan is an island part of Shengsi County, Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China. Geographically it is one of the Shengsi Islands. The island has an area of 1.491 km2, including 0.467 km2 of land reclaimed during the construction project of Baosteel's ore transit base starting in 1997. It was originally an isolated island, after Zhoushan City implemented a relocation project of the island, most of the population on the island was moved to Maguan village on Shengsi Island just north. Most of the land is now used by the Baosteel ore transfer base, which opened in 2004. A bridge has been built to connect the island with Shengsi island. In 2006, the MS Berge Stahl MS ''Berge Stahl'' was a bulk carrier. Until the delivery of MS ''Vale Brasil'' in 2011 she was the longest and largest iron ore carrier in the world. She was registered in Comoros. Before that, she was registered in Douglas, Isle of Man, Sta ..., one of the largest ships at the time, visited the port of Majishan. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MS Berge Stahl
MS ''Berge Stahl'' was a bulk carrier. Until the delivery of MS ''Vale Brasil'' in 2011 she was the longest and largest iron ore carrier in the world. She was registered in Comoros. Before that, she was registered in Douglas, Isle of Man, Stavanger, Norway as well as in Monrovia, Liberia. An iron ore carrier, ''Berge Stahl'' had a capacity of . She was built in 1986 by Hyundai Heavy Industries. The vessel was long, had a beam, or width, of , and a draft, or depth in the water, of . Her MAN B&W 7L90MCE diesel engine drove a single propeller giving a top speed of . Because of its massive size, ''Berge Stahl'' could originally only tie up, fully loaded, at two ports in the world, hauling ore from the Terminal Marítimo de Ponta da Madeira in Brazil to the Europoort near Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Even at these ports, passage must be timed to coincide with high tides to prevent the ship running aground. ''Berge Stahl'' made this trip about ten times each year, or a round-t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baosteel
China Baowu Steel Group Corp., Ltd., commonly known as Baowu, is a state-owned iron and steel company headquartered in the Baosteel Tower in Pudong, Shanghai, China. The company was formed by Baosteel Group absorbing its smaller state-owned peer, Wuhan Iron and Steel Corporation in 2016. It is the world's largest steel producer. In 2015, Baowu was the second largest steel producer in the world measured by crude steel output, with an annual output of around 35 million tons (China's total steel production in 2015 was 803.8 million tons), and employed 130,401 employees as of the end of 2012, had annual revenues of around $21.5 billion, and produces a mix of products. In 2019, the company closed the gap with ArcelorMittal reaching 95.47 million tons of steel, and hitting $78 billion in revenues, with 195 434 employees. According to World Steel Association (Chinese companies data were provided by China Iron and Steel Association), the corporation was ranked the 5th in 2015 the wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shengsi County
Shengsi County is a CPRC, county in the northeast of Zhejiang province consisting of an archipelago islands located to the east of Hangzhou Bay. It is under the administration of Zhoushan City and is the easternmost county-level division in the province. The islands of Greater Yangshan, Greater and Lesser Yangshan are connected with Shanghai's Pudong New Area by the Donghai Bridge and Yangshan Port, their port forms part of the Port of Shanghai. They are, however, not counted among the islands of Shanghai. The county consists of 630 islands and islets, of which 13 have more than 100 inhabitants. Administrative divisions Towns: *Caiyuan, Shengsi County, Caiyuan (菜园镇), Shengshan (嵊山镇), Yangshan, Zhejiang, Yangshan (洋山镇) Townships: *Wulong Township, Zhejiang, Wulong Township (五龙乡), Huanglong Township, Zhejiang, Huanglong Township (黄龙乡), Gouqi Township (枸杞乡), Huadao Township (花鸟乡) Climate See also * Shengsi Islands References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhoushan
Zhoushan , formerly romanized as Chusan, is an urbanized archipelago with the administrative status of a prefecture-level city in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang. It consists of an archipelago of islands at the southern mouth of Hangzhou Bay, off Ningbo. The prefecture's city proper is Dinghai on Zhoushan Island, now administered as the prefecture's Dinghai District. During the 2020 census, Zhoushan Prefecture's population was 1,157,817, out of whom 882,932 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of two urban districts of Dinghai and Putuo. On 8 July 2011 the central government approved Zhoushan as Zhoushan Archipelago New Area, a state-level new area. History The archipelago was inhabited 6,000 years ago during the Neolithic by people of the Hemudu culture. During the Spring and Autumn period, Zhoushan was called Yongdong, referring to its location east of the Yong River. At the time, it belonged to the state of Yue. The fishermen and sailors who inhab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhejiang
Zhejiang ( or , ; , also romanized as Chekiang) is an eastern, coastal province of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Hangzhou, and other notable cities include Ningbo and Wenzhou. Zhejiang is bordered by Jiangsu and Shanghai to the north, Anhui to the northwest, Jiangxi to the west and Fujian to the south. To the east is the East China Sea, beyond which lies the Ryukyu Islands. The population of Zhejiang stands at 64.6 million, the 8th highest among China. It has been called 'the backbone of China' due to being a major driving force in the Chinese economy and being the birthplace of several notable persons, including the Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek and entrepreneur Jack Ma. Zhejiang consists of 90 counties (incl. county-level cities and districts). The area of Zhejiang was controlled by the Kingdom of Yue during the Spring and Autumn period. The Qin Empire later annexed it in 222 BC. Under the late Ming dynasty and the Qing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shengsi Islands
The Shengsi Islands or Archipelago () are part of the Zhoushan Archipelago and located south of the mouth of the Yangtze (east of Hangzhou Bay). They comprise 394 islands, each with an area larger than , but of which just 18 are inhabitable. The largest island is Sijiao Island with an area of . The islands are administered by Shengsi County Shengsi County is a county in the northeast of Zhejiang province consisting of an archipelago islands located to the east of Hangzhou Bay. It is under the administration of Zhoushan City and is the easternmost county-level division in the provi ... of Zhoushan City. The islands have a subtropical climate, with yearly average temperature of . The area is also notable as tourist destination and a fishery that attracts more than 100,000 fishermen every winter.Shanghai Star, 2001-04-26 See also * Houtouwan – abandoned village on Shengshan Island, now a tourist attraction References External links Shanghai Star, 2001-04-26 Zhousha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shengsi Island , in Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China
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Shengsi may refer to: *Shengsi County, in Zhejiang, China *Shengsi Islands The Shengsi Islands or Archipelago () are part of the Zhoushan Archipelago and located south of the mouth of the Yangtze (east of Hangzhou Bay). They comprise 394 islands, each with an area larger than , but of which just 18 are inhabitable. The l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islands Of Zhejiang
An island or isle is a piece of subcontinental land completely surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island in a river or a lake island may be called an eyot or ait, and a small island off the coast may be called a holm. Sedimentary islands in the Ganges Delta are called chars. A grouping of geographically or geologically related islands, such as the Philippines, is referred to as an archipelago. There are two main types of islands in the sea: continental islands and oceanic islands. There are also artificial islands (man-made islands). There are about 900,000 official islands in the world. This number consists of all the officially-reported islands of each country. The total number of islands in the world is unknown. There may be hundreds of thousands of tiny islands that are unknown and uncounted. The number of sea islands in the world is estimated to be more than 200,000. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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